England batsman David Malan has backed proposals to cut back the variety of County Championship matches, however former Test batsman Geoffrey Boycott fears that any such transfer would imply the “death of county cricket”.
Former captain Andrew Strauss final week introduced a high-performance evaluation commissioned by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after the crew’s Ashes debacle in January.
The proposals, which embody a 15% discount in males’s home cricket, have been polarizing, with many counties deciding to oppose their introduction for the 2024 season.
“Cricket is now a game of 12 months in a year,” Malan informed reporters in Lahore forward of the sixth Twenty20 International in opposition to Pakistan.
“It’s about creating a schedule that makes players want to play in all formats.”
“If you’re a player trying to get better at your game, there’s no time to work on your game and you’re burning yourself out.”
He additionally identified that England have been a top-order crew for less than 12 months.
“We cannot argue that the county system is working if we have been number one in the world for such a short period of time.”
Boycott expressed the other view, saying that the ECB most popular shorter codecs engaging to red-ball cricket.
The outspoken 81-year-old wrote within the Daily Telegraph, “The problem is that the ECB is run by corporate suits who only look at the balance sheet.”
“They see county cricket as losing money and, like any commodity, if it doesn’t make money it has to go.”
The former opener questioned how the gamers would enhance till they performed extra.
“It is too easy to say cut the quantity of four-day matches to give more rest to the players and ensure that the matches are more competitive. I’ve never seen players and women improve while sitting on their ass!”
“I perceive it’s important to adapt or die.
But if counties undertake Strauss’s report with fewer matches, it is the tip of our red-ball sport.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
